That leaves parties like the Constitution Party.
Anyone who says this country is no longer Christian is absolutely correct.

Now, here is the greatest irony of all.

From the point of view of winning the election, it DOES NOT MATTER how you vote. As the video below demonstrates, the person who buys the best hackers will win the 2016 election. Trump is absolutely correct to say the election is rigged. Any IT guy could tell you the same thing. The irony is, if Trump wants to win, HEHASto rig the election. Every candidate who wants to win HAS to cheat, every candidate who wants to win has to rig the election. There isn't any other way to win anymore.

Given that 5000 people have access to the election database (GEMS), it is virtually a guarantee that someone is going to rig it, regardless of what the others do. So now, EVERYONE has to rig their own election if they want a shot at winning it. This is Prisoner's Dilemma on steroids.

So, it doesn't matter how you vote in your precincts, what you print out, what idiocy your cell phone or video camera records. None of that matters, because the hackers will be changing the numbers in the GEM database to suit themselves.

What matters is, who is the last hacker to access the database?
That's all that matters now.

So, you might as well vote your conscience.
In terms of who gets elected, it doesn't matter: your vote is whatever the hackers say it is.There's only one way to change this madness, and we will be lucky if it were implemented by 2020, which it won't be, because too many powerful people have a vested interest in not implementing a real solution.

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

So the Democrat talking heads, that is, the MSM, are saying voter fraud doesn't happen, and they want to cite this study to make the argument that it doesn't. According to this study, there have been only 31 alleged incidents of voter ID fraud out of the 1 billion votes cast since 2000 AD.

Unfortunately, the man writing the study admits what the MSM doesn't want you to know. That is, the professor in question actually doesn't say anything close what the MSM wants you to think he says. These are his actual words:

Election fraud happens. But ID laws are not aimed at the fraud you’ll actually hear about. Most current ID laws (Wisconsin is a rare exception) aren’t designed to stop fraud with absentee ballots (indeed, laws requiring ID at the polls push more people into the absentee system, where there are plenty of real dangers). Or vote buying. Or coercion. Or fake registration forms. Or voting from the wrong address. Or ballot box stuffing by officials in on the scam. In the 243-page document that Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel filed on Monday with evidence of allegedly illegal votes in the Mississippi Republican primary, there were no allegations of the kind of fraud that ID can stop.

Instead, requirements to show ID at the polls are designed for pretty much one thing: people showing up at the polls pretending to be somebody else in order to each cast one incremental fake ballot. This is a slow, clunky way to steal an election. Which is why it rarely happens.

When he says "voter fraud doesn't happen", what he means is "people showing up at the polls pretending to be somebody else" - that doesn't happen. But he acknowledges that this is all he is looking at. He isn't looking at all the other ways to defraud the vote.

Unfortunately for this conversation, when most people talk about "voter fraud", they mean a lot more than his narrow definition. They mean not only "voting while pretending to be someone else" but also:

fraud with absentee ballots.

vote buying

coercion

fake registration forms

voting from the wrong address

ballot box stuffing by officials.

But the professor's study doesn't look at any of those ways, as he himself admits.

But it gets worse. Contrary to the MSM assertion, the professor doesn't say "Election fraud doesn't happen." Instead, he says exactly the opposite: "Election fraud happens" and he certainly knows that these other methods are being used widely everywhere to commit that fraud. Even the Elections Commissioner of New York (a Democrat) acknowledges.as much:

The professor isn't a complete fool. Election fraud happens. This is not news. Does anyone honestly think Tammany Hall didn't exist? That Chicago is not run by a Democrat machine that habitually falsifies the vote? How many senators and Congressman have been elected to office by more votes than there were registered voters? Heck, it happened in the congressional district where I grew up, was reported on the front page of the local paper, and no one was ever indicted, much less prosecuted.

Everyone knew the Congressman was fraudulently elected and everyone knew he had spent years buying up every judge in the county, so everyone knew he couldn't be touched, no matter what was on the front page of the paper. The Congressman served his multiple terms and is now, as far as I know, safely retired and collecting his Congressional pension, after serving himself in Congress for decades and having survived being an unindicted co-conspirator to at least one major Congressional scandal. This is just business as usual, it is common throughout America, and everyone knows it.

So, when the MSM tells us "there is no substantial voter fraud", we all know they are either using a definition no one else uses, OR they are lying through their pearly-white teeth. Or both. In this case, both.

Now, I am going to go out on a limb and agree that voter ID laws won't stop any of the myriad ways to commit vote fraud that the good professor lists above. But when someone tells us that American citizens do not need photo ID at the polling booth when we absolutely MUST present it for every other single transaction we conduct with the government or its flunkies, when someone says THAT, then we feel as if we are being mocked.

And no one likes to be mocked.

You see, it's pretty simple. If you want to conduct voter fraud and you want everyone to look the other way while it happens because you want the job, its salary and - more important - its perqs, well, that's America. Americans are used to graft. It's the American way. After all, how many voters have inflated their resume, overstated their income on a bank loan, or similarly mis-represented themselves to get money they wanted? American voters are generally willing to do whatever it takes to turn a buck. As can be seen by our propensity to vote for murderous abortion-lovers, we Americans are money-grubbing, venal jackasses who don't care if children have to die as long as the economy stays in the black. If killing children is the price we must pay to maintain our way of life, then kill the little bastards and grind them up in the Insinkerator. In short, we understand ballot-stuffing, we are willing to overlook that because we can easily see ourselves doing the same, if that were necessary to get the job or the promotion or the loan or whatever.

But when you tell American voters, to our faces, that all that photo ID stuff is nonsense for purposes of voting, we start to think that maybe it is nonsense for everything else too. And if it is nonsense for everything else, then why are you requiring it of us for all those other transactions? If it isn't necessary for the most basic civic function there is, voting, then why are we forced to carry this crap at all? If you're going to break the rules to get what you want by using all of the fraudulent methods above, then cut us some slack and dump rules that are designed to prevent us from wriggling around the system the same way you do.

And if you aren't willing to dump the other stupid rules, then at least allow us to save face by pretending that photo ID is as important here as you pretend it is everywhere else. We don't mind hypocrisy, we just want consistency in our hypocrisy. Without that, how can we look at ourselves in the mirror the morning after we have elected another child-murderer?

Americans just want a level playing field, that's all.
It's our way of life that is at stake here.

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

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As early voting begins in the 2016 election, there have been numerous reports of electronic voting machines "changing" the on-screen vote. Voters are being warned to pay close attention and keep a hold on their paper ballots.

That advice is a complete waste of time.

Look, any trivially competent programmer can print one result to the screen or the paper while storing an entirely different result in the database.

These reports that the "screen changed" are just demonstrations that whoever hacked that particular voting machine was completely incompetent. If a trivially competent programmer were involved, you wouldn't even know your vote had been hacked. The piece of paper you clutch in your fist would be as useful, and as valuable, as Monopoly money.

The only tech I know of that can stop vote tampering cold is the blockchain technology developed in 2009 for Bitcoin. There are some procedural issues to work out, but if blockchain were used, no vote could be compromised, the person who voted would be able to change his/her vote at any moment right up until the close of polls, all votes would be instantly accessible so anyone could count the vote and satisfy themselves as to the accuracy, and the vote would remain relatively (although not absolutely) anonymous.

The vote could not be broken by a programmer, a virus or a DDoS attack. Only a 51% attack could violate the integrity of the vote, and such an attack would be bloody obvious to anyone paying attention.

The electronic voting machines we have now are ludicrously easy to beat, as is the process by which they are used. The vote cannot be secured by returning to paper ballots - that's just stupid. Paper ballots were also ludicrously easy to beat. I know of no other technology that has even a hope of securing the integrity of an election.

Until we implement blockchain for our elections, the elections will not be decided by voters. Rather, every election will be decided by whoever employed the best hackers. Whether you like it or not, that's where we are now. Ignoring this reality is not helping anyone.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

"Are you a Democrat, Republican or Independent?"
"Oh, none of the above."
"Excuse me?"
"I said, 'None of the above. I am Catholic.'"

Anti-Catholic Bigotry: A Proud History

Catholics have an odd political history. The Catholic outlook does not fit any particular American political movement, which is why Catholics have long been considered politically suspect. Everyone remembers the Democrat party invented the KKK to suppress the black vote, but few recall that it also suppressed the Catholics and the Jews. In fact, the largest lynching in the history of the American south was not a mass lynching of blacks, but of Catholics - in 1891, eleven Italian-Americans were lynched for allegedly killing a police officer.

Similarly, the national Know Nothing party was founded exactly one year after the Republican party, and the two had close ties. The Know Nothings were famously and virulently anti-Catholic. The Know-Nothing penchant for violence is perhaps best remembered in the success of a local chapter in burning down an Ursuline Convent in 1834, Almost exactly twenty years later, they destroyed a marble block donated by the Pope for use in the construction of the Washington Monument, The Know-Nothings "kidnapped" the block and threw it into the Potomac to keep Washington's Monument free of "popish" influences.

Modern Bigots: Clinton/Trump

Whether Democrat or Republican, political advancement in America has long been tied to displaying one's anti-Catholic credentials to a frequently bloodthirsty audience. Thus, it is no surprise to see Trump's hypocritical attack the Pope (to see Trump's complete statement, go here):

So, why did Trump respond so viciously, pretending he had been attacked when Pope Francis had actually questioned the reporter's veracity? Trump responded that way precisely because Trump knows what all politicians know - in certain circles, you get more mileage for attacking the Pope than for agreeing with him.

Now Hillary Clinton is on the dock because the highest members of her staff had virulently anti-Catholic conversations, with the following documented example demonstrating the bias:

“It’s [i.e., Catholicism is] an amazing bastardization of the faith. They must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations and must be totally unaware of Christian democracy,” Mr. Halpin said.
“I imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they become evangelicals,” Ms. Palmieri responded.
“Excellent point,” Mr. Halpin wrote back. “They can throw around ‘Thomistic’ thought and ‘subsidiarity’ and sound sophisticated because no one knows what the hell they’re talking about.”

Actually, Catholics expect a well-educated person to be familiar with basic terms like "subsidiarity" and "Thomistic thought". Every politician claims to be well-educated. Clinton's emails demonstrate that Clinton's "best" people function at or below the educational level usually attributed to Trump supporters.

In General, What Does a Catholic Stand For?

An excellent question. For Catholics, Faith comes before country. We have a duty to Christ that supersedes any duty to secular authority. If it is a choice between obeying God and man, we obey God. Still, as Scripture says, we must also acknowledge that our leaders have power only because God permits them to, thus we are called to work within the law whenever possible.

Responsibility should be shouldered at the lowest possible level - the players at the lowest level of society, e.g., parents, teachers, etc., the people out on the street, doing the work, these are the people who should have the greatest voice in a process. Higher levels of authority exist not to rule over those in the street, but to help allocate resources so that those who know the problem best have what they need to resolve the problem. This is called the "principle of subsidiarity."

Since revolution, especially armed revolution, disrupts society, such movements always harm innocents, Acting with this in mind, Catholics are required to avoid fomenting rebellion or revolution if it can possibly be avoided. We are required to work within the system, not subvert it. These political principles, and many more, were clearly explained by Thomas Aquinas. In fact, Catholic political principles are drawn largely from his clear, logical analysis, analysis which summarized how human and divine action should interact. His summaries of political and theological principles are together known as "Thomistic" thought.

Catholics on Specific Issues

So, can some major principles, as regards America's culture, be enunciated?
Yes.Quasi-Democrat principle
All people have the right to attempt to better their lives, so immigration must be as free as possible. Vatican City models this principle by not even having a passport check on its border with Italy. Anyone can freely enter the country at any time, and many of Italy's homeless take advantage of that fact every night, walking across the Vatican City border for shelter and food.Quasi-Republican principle
That having been said, insofar as those laws are just, and do not violate human rights, immigrants have a duty to obey the laws of their host countryQuasi-Democrat principle
Everyone has the right to live their life as they think best, according to the primacy of a well-formed conscience.Quasi-Republican principle
However, for anyone's actions to be acceptable, their conscience must be "well-formed." The state has every right to restrict actions which someone freely undertakes, but which would not pass the test of a well-formed conscience.

Quasi-Democrat principle
We all have a duty to care for the poor. This duty is bound by the principle of subsidiarity, that is, the poor should be taken care of by local organizations, not far-away government agencies. HOWEVER, higher organizations, such as city, county, state and federal government, have a duty to assist those local organizations. The government's duty towards those local organizations includes the duty to provide necessary resources, such as funding.Quasi-Republican principle
Innocent life is always to be preserved, so crimes against innocent persons can never, under any circumstances, be justified. Thus, all forms of deliberate abortion, euthanasia, etc., must be illegal. There can be no exceptions. Period.

No. Really. Period. Done.

Quasi-Democrat principle:
While the state has the right to exercise the death penalty, that penalty should not be used if it can possibly be avoided. God is the giver of life. Since a criminal is one who makes war on the state and its citizens, we have to use the same principles in applying the death penalty that we use in the application of "just war." If we apply those principles, it is impossible to justify the death penalty in most cases.Quasi-Republican principle
Marriage exists not only for the good of the spouses, but also for the good of procreating children. It follows both that (a) children have a right to grow up with their biological parents, and (b) parents have a duty to raise their children. For these and other reasons, homosexual "marriage" is a contradiction in terms.Both parties like this:
It is legitimate to wage war, but only according to the principles of just war. Democrats got America into most of the last century's worth of wars, and Republicans have made sure the American war machine stayed funded. Both parties benefit from war. Unfortunately, neither party has ever shown great interest in restricting themselves to waging a just war.Both parties hate this:
Contraception is an intrinsic evil and should not be permitted. However, contraception does not always directly take innocent life. As both St. Augustine and St. Thomas point out, in cases like this, the state may permit one evil in order to avoid a larger evil. For instance, the state may permit prostitution in order to avoid a greater violence. Since, as even Mahatma Gandhi recognized, contraception turns a woman into a prostitute, the state might permit legal contraception (i.e., legal prostitution) in order to avoid some other evil. Both of America's political parties want legal contraception, but they don't want anyone pointing out that they have thereby turned women into prostitutes.

Both parties SAY they like this, but both actually hate it:
Women must be respected.

Making contraception available turns them into prostitutes. Making abortion available turns them into accomplices to murder. Treating women like exchangeable prostitutes by engaging in serial divorce and re-marriage is likewise not respectful. Treating the vocation of mother as a trash job for someone too incompetent to make it in the business world is not respectful. Pretending that "male" and "female" are simply social constructs is not respectful. Electing politicians who treat the women around them in this way (all previous presidents in the last century except, perhaps, George W. Bush, please call your office. Hillary, get out from under the smears and coverups you have committed against your husband's rape victims and pick up the phone - this includes you.) is not respectful.

America used to produce candidates who at least publicly pretended to stand behind principles that were recognizably Catholic. Today, both major parties have surrendered these principles. Catholics have no viable major party choice. Even Gary Johnson, of the Libertarian Party, essentially matches Hillary in his/her "murder-for-hire" attitude towards children.

Catholics have to get our heads around this fact: Barack Obama is correct.

With the 2016 presidential candidates, it is now clear we are no longer a Christian country.
Catholics do not now, and will not soon, have a viable presidential candidate to vote for. We have been, and will continue for the foreseeable future to be, living in Churchill's Wilderness Years. We simply cannot expect to see a viable candidate that Catholics can morally support for a long, long time.

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

Thursday, October 06, 2016

The Second Vatican Council asked for the laity to get more involved. The Council did NOT mandate that the laity agree with all the priest's/bishop's decisions, nor did it assert that one side or the other would always be right in how they acted.

Priests and bishops model behaviour to the congregation. If priests and bishops abuse the liturgy, then the laity see and understand the basic principle: abuse is acceptable! Thus, the congregation abuses the priests and bishops.

If priests and bishops question the Magisterium's authority, if they pick and choose which teachings of the Church they will endorse, if they cast aspersions on the Pope from the ambo, then the congregation will question the priest's and bishop's authority. The congregation will pick and choose which pronouncements of the pastor they will honor, the congregation will cast aspersions (or make Youtube videos) of the pastor and the bishop and post those on the Internet.

That's how life works.
With ubiquitous video recording devices, what goes around will come around with a vengeance.

The sheep drink from the same stream as the shepherd.
Shepherds should keep that in mind when they choose their streams.

If the pastor doesn't like how the congregation acts, it's because he can't stand looking at his face in the morning mirror. You want an obedient, respectful flock? Be obedient and respectful to the Church. If you aren't, then devil will take the hindmost, and that might well be you.